Earlier in the year Deputy Labour Leader Tom Watson led a vocal campaign to bring Lord Brittan to justice for child abuse. He accused the Tory Peer of being “as close to evil as any human being could get” over an alleged 48-year-old rape accusation.
Continue reading When investigating historic child abuse we should act without fear or favour
Ever since Sweden banned the buying of sex in 1999, there’s been an ongoing debate in the UK about introducing a similar law here.
Continue reading Ending the sex trade – what we can learn from Sweden
In the past week I received several social media comments by safeguarding professionals about the recent case of the 14-year-old boy who sent a naked text of himself to a female class mate at school.
In this, my fourth blog in the series, I will outline how the Ipswich Street Prostitution Strategy was formulated and how it was turned into effective operational activity. How we overcame the challenge of getting a range of agencies to sign up to one single aim and a new approach. I will also outline how we evaluated our success or otherwise.
Continue reading Developing a strategy to remove prostitution from the streets of Ipswich
In his third blog former Detective Superintendent Alan Caton OBE outlines how Suffolk police responded to street prostitution after five young women were brutally murdered. All five women were trapped in a world of prostitution; all were vulnerable and addicted to drugs.
Continue reading Developing a long-term strategy to deal with street prostitution